Screen for automobile radiators



May 10, 1938. r B. WENGARD 2,116,857

SCREEN FOR AUTOMOBILE RADIATORS Filed Aug. 21, 1936 3nventor B 71 Wengard Patented May 10, 1938 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE Ben Wengard,

Waterloo, Iowa Application August 21, 1936, Serial No. 97,171

1 Claim.

My invention relates to improvements in screens for automobile radiators, and an object of my improvements is to supply a demountable screen therefor, constructed with a marginal bendable 5 open frame crossed by netting, the frame thus being adapted to be fitted upon the front face of a radiator to cover it, and being bendable at medial upper and lower reaches to permit it to be conformed to the shape of the radiator if its side parts are sloped laterally from a common vertical or longitudinal medial angle.

Another object of my improvements is to cover the frame with interlaced cross connections, such as wires or netting, so arranged in their components that certain groups of the wires are regularly associated with other groups to reinforce the latter against strains or deformations of the frame, while providing a regular and pleasing combination pattern as a Whole.

I have accomplished the above objects by the means which are hereinafter described and claimed, and illustrated by the following drawing. Fig. 1 is a front elevation of my improved radiator screen covering. Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail view of a portion of the frame, its marginal sleeve, and the associated netted and crossing warps and reeds which supply the screen covering of the device.

The screen comprises an endless rod or elongated open frame l, of bendable rod wire, and which may be bent to a greater or less degree longitudinally medially to fit it upon a radiator having laterally and rearwardly sloping side parts as displayed in some cars.

The netting shown is also of a character as to be bendable to retain its shape when so conformed to an angle front radiator. It consists of cross Warp 2 between side parts of the frame I, spaced evenly, and reeds, shown in varying arrangements in Figs. 1 and 2, as associated with the warp.

Referring to Figs. 1 and 2, Fig. 2 shows a segment of the wire rod ring frame I which is housed in a marginal cover I with selvages l stitched together to incase the frame rod 1., and this cover covers the extreme end parts of the warp 'and reeds. Preferably, the warp 2 is arranged, evenly spaced, horizontally across the frame 1, and the reeds longitudinally across the frame vertically, but unevenly spaced in certain associated groups of reeds. As shown in Figs. 1 and 2, each group consists of a plurality of single reeds 3, evenly spaced, while in Fig. l, the reeds 3 are arranged in a plurality of two. Spaced from the inner reeds 3 on each side, are other reeds 4, 5 and 6. For the purpose of illustration, Fig. 2 shows the latter reeds in parallel, but being four single reeds 3 interposed between each pair of tripled reeds 4, 5, and 6 as a group.

The above arrangement may be varied, but one object of the mode of combination of the reeds 4, 5, and 6 with the warp, and with the intermediate plurality of wires 3, is to have the interlocked reeds 4, 5, and 6 with the warp 2 supply a strongly braced construction as a band in reinforcing more strongly the inner single wires 3. As a Whole assemblage, therefore, the netting is very strong, resistant to torsional strains, yet more yieldable when the shield as a whole including its frame elements I and l are medially bent to be conformed to an angular front radiator. It is evident that this group arrangement of the netting wires, is more practical in use than an ordinary netting with evenly spaced Warp and reeds. Variations therein are therefore considered to be within my invention, and also within the scope of the following claim.

I claim:

A flexible screen for an automobile radiator, comprising in combination, a hollow flexible wire frame, an inwardly opening flexible cover for said frame U-shaped in cross section, and a wire netting shaped to fit within said frame, the cover being stitched through its margins and the intervening margin of the netting, the netting being composed of interwoven cross warps and longitudinal reeds, and which are relatively associated with each other by interweaving thereof, the warp wires being evenly spaced apart, and the reed wires being composed of a plurality of like groups thereof, relatively widely spaced apart, and each group being composed of widely spaced sets of closely associated triplicate reeds, the interspace of each set containing a plurality of relatively widely spaced single reeds, whereby the relatively wide interspaces between the groups of reeds form more easily bendable places longitudinally between the groups, to facilitate longitudinal bending of the screen to conform it to differently sloping surfaces of different radiator fronts.

BEN WEN GARD. 

